Games Like Automation

Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam. From switches to steam based computers, all in a world of analogue pressure devices. Use previous designs to solve further challenges, unravel the mystery of the missing steam and discover a new field of science.

Why similar: Automation 37.2%, Education 29.4%, Physics 11.7%, Puzzle 9.2%, Strategy 6.6%

Alan's Automaton Workshop is an open-ended programming puzzle game. Start a new business with Alan Turing and his groundbreaking innovation: the Turing Machine. Build unique automatons, and solve all kinds of problems from clients.

Why similar: Automation 40.3%, Education 39.7%, Puzzle 10.2%, Simulation 7%, 2D 1.5%

You are an electrician, moving back to your hometown in the Austrian Alps, which you find lacks a certain... spark. Promptly tasked with wiring up the village, you solve electrical puzzles, blow fuses and master real-world circuitry techniques. Electrify the Alps, one circuit at a time.

Why similar: Education 33.9%, Automation 29.8%, Simulation 10.9%, Physics 9.8%, Strategy 6.3%

With just a few sliders you can make beautiful structures from millions of little creatures following each other.

Why similar: Education 40.5%, Automation 37.6%, Simulation 15.7%, 2D 3%, Colorful 2.6%

Enjoy playing with gears? Gearplexed is a constructive problem-solving game with a variety of gear-based puzzles ranging from opening gates to building factories. Build gears to get the right amount of speed or torque to the target gears and be careful not to lock up your gear train.

Why similar: Automation 30.8%, Education 30.6%, Physics 13.5%, Puzzle 9.7%, Strategy 6.9%

The original physics building game is now on PC! Use minimal tools to build an infinite variety of puzzle-solving machines. Featuring over 70 THOUSAND user-generated levels, and includes the sequel Fantastic Contraption Classic 2!

Why similar: Education 24.7%, Physics 21.6%, Automation 14.9%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 12%

Welcome to Frog Brain, a challenging neural network simulation game. In this world, you’ll take on the role of a neural network designer, using your creativity and logical thinking to build neural networks and solve a series of complex scenario challenges.

Why similar: Education 47.9%, Automation 26.9%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 7.1%, 3D 4%

The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

Why similar: Education 51.8%, Physics 25.6%, Simulation 16.5%, 2D 4.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%

A hardcore puzzle game about digital circuits

Why similar: Education 55.4%, Simulation 22.4%, Puzzle 15.1%, 2D 3.9%, Indie 1.7%

Build a robot from real parts — solenoids, gears, connecting rods — wire it up, and figure out why it won't turn yet. Nothing here is faked: the current is really computed, and every breakdown has a cause you can find.

Why similar: Automation 41.3%, Education 32.4%, Physics 12.6%, Simulation 6%, Colorful 3%

TerraBlocks is a geography-based puzzle game where you move and rotate drifting continent pieces from the North Pole to their correct places. As you progress, the challenge increases. Test your spatial awareness and geographic knowledge while rebuilding the world!

Why similar: Education 46%, Puzzle 15.4%, Simulation 15.1%, Physics 10.8%, Strategy 6.2%

Every machine follows your instructions. Build automated factories with intuitive visual programming, solve clever automation puzzles, and watch your factory come to life.

Why similar: Automation 54.4%, Strategy 16.8%, Simulation 13.7%, Puzzle 12.5%, 2D 2%

Crack simulated safe locks using real techniques!

Why similar: Education 48.4%, Simulation 19.8%, Puzzle 15%, Physics 12.6%, 3D 3.4%

A lockpicking simulator that does not roll dice. Pin tumbler locks, simulated rather than scored: no hidden success chance, no progress bar. A pin sets because you held the pick still inside a window a fraction of a millimetre wide, long enough to catch.

Why similar: Education 53%, Simulation 23.4%, Puzzle 16.7%, 2D 4.1%, Indie 1.6%

Area Cooperation Economic Simulation: North Korea (ACES) simulates the development of North Korea's Pyongyang economy. It is an economic simulation and not a game, and useful for an economics class.

Why similar: Education 50.9%, Strategy 25.1%, Simulation 23.9%

Block shop is an automation puzzle game in which basic blocks are transformed and combined to create increasingly complex blocks.

Why similar: Automation 59.2%, Strategy 20.9%, Puzzle 14.9%, Indie 2.5%, 2D 1.9%

Industrial Robotics Training : handle a 6-axis industrial robot and share my job

Why similar: Education 40.3%, Automation 40.3%, Simulation 15.7%, 3D 2.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Enter the most advanced challenge laboratory of today's games, where electronics and logic merge into challenges that will captivate your mind and awaken the engineer within you!

Why similar: Education 39.1%, Automation 26.3%, Puzzle 10.9%, Simulation 10.2%, Physics 5.5%

Nuclear fission simulator. Control A nuclear reactor, balancing Uranium fissile material. The game features a oversimplified reactor and the R.B.M.K Reactor in Chernobyl.

Why similar: Education 54.3%, Simulation 21%, Physics 19.2%, 2D 4.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%

The Qubit Factory is an open-ended puzzle game incorporating real-life concepts from the cutting-edge field of quantum computing. Design and build logic circuits that manipulate bits and qubits (quantum bits) to solve devious computational challenges!

Why similar: Automation 38.8%, Education 24.9%, Puzzle 12.8%, Simulation 11.5%, Physics 10.6%

Let Them Fall is a dynamic puzzle-strategy game. Transport objects using conveyor belts to the target zone. With each level, the game gets tougher with diverse shapes, colors, and limited space on procedurally generated maps. Will you take up the challenge?

Why similar: Automation 42.9%, Strategy 16.7%, Simulation 16.4%, Physics 9.9%, Puzzle 8.2%

Chime Candy is an interactive musical puzzle game that combines the joy of music and learning by guiding fish to their note slots to learn how to read sheet music and various melodies.

Why similar: Education 49.7%, Strategy 17.1%, Puzzle 13.3%, Simulation 11.9%, Colorful 3.1%

Place items freely in a virtual space, harness the laws of physics, and build your own Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. Design your contraption, press the Action Button, and enjoy the thrill of watching it come to life. A built-in Stage Editor lets you create your own original stages.

Why similar: Automation 36.9%, Education 21%, Physics 17.1%, Puzzle 11.6%, Simulation 9.4%

Large scale computer redstone! Taking computer redstone to the next level with 24bit color screens, keyboard inputs, powerful tools like copy pasting, saving blueprints, modifying simulation speed and more, all ready to be used.

Why similar: Education 47.8%, Automation 28%, Simulation 18.4%, 2D 3.9%, Indie 1.3%

This is an earthquake escape game, about how to move to a safe place at home when an earthquake occurs, and make an earthquake safe escape game. Our protagonist kid is alone at home. Where can he move to hide in order to be safer?

Why similar: Education 65.9%, Simulation 26%, 3D 6.6%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Programmer Dungeon is a tactical game that challenges players to use logic programming to solve puzzles and progress through each level. Collect unique skills, use visual programming to automate your character, and defeat your enemies. Plan carefully and enjoy this exciting adventure!

Why similar: Automation 38.1%, Education 31.2%, Puzzle 10.9%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 7.9%

Hurricane Heroes is a 3-act interactive narrative experience that places players in the shoes of three critical roles as a storm approaches and impacts the coast of Florida.

Why similar: Education 70.4%, Simulation 22.1%, 3D 6%, Singleplayer 1.5%

A conveyor-based production and logistics sandbox including smart machines, node based conveyor belts, logic and recipe based item generation and powerful design time construction. Create and connect Miners, Splitters, Factories, Containers, Vaults and more...

Why similar: Automation 57.9%, Strategy 17.9%, Simulation 13.2%, Puzzle 7.2%, 3D 3.3%

Equate 8 is an innovative and addicting new math puzzle game by the creator of The Devil's Calculator. Rearrange numbers in a 3x3 grid to solve eight equations (3 across, 3 down, and 2 diagonal) in the fewest moves possible. Challenges involve a variety of operators and difficulty levels!

Why similar: Education 56.9%, Puzzle 20.3%, Strategy 14.3%, Colorful 5.9%, Indie 1.7%

You input any function to guide the red ball on the xy-plane to the goal.

Why similar: Education 44.2%, Physics 23.6%, Puzzle 16.8%, Simulation 11.2%, 2D 2%

You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.

Why similar: Automation 37.4%, Education 36.1%, Puzzle 9.4%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 5.3%

Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!

Why similar: Automation 42.2%, Education 32%, Simulation 8.7%, Strategy 8.4%, Puzzle 7.2%

In Factorization, you must plan and build a factory capable of producing ever more complex resources. You focus on designing optimal production lines while carefully balancing your budget. In the meantime your workers build your designs and carry out the day-to-day tasks in your factory.

Why similar: Automation 63.6%, Strategy 14.6%, Simulation 14.2%, 2D 4.3%, Indie 2.4%

A magical automation puzzle game where you program a little shikigami automaton using visual spell blocks - explore, harvest energy, and cleanse corrupted sigils in a cozy fantasy world.

Why similar: Automation 37%, Strategy 21.8%, Simulation 20.5%, Puzzle 14.3%, 2D 4.3%

Build and run your own automated factory to turn materials into a range of products!

Why similar: Automation 52.6%, Simulation 23.7%, Physics 22.1%, Singleplayer 1.6%

A surreal building game for VR. Create life-sized contraptions as tall as you can reach, then send them whirling, flinging, and trundling off to solve puzzles on the other side of a floating island. There are no right or wrong solutions, so bring your creativity.

Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Education 23.8%, Physics 15.7%, Puzzle 9.9%, Strategy 9.3%

Minesweeper Pillar is a twist on the classic minesweeper game. In this unique gaming experience, you'll find yourself in a cylindrical world where mines are hidden within the walls of a rotating pillar.

Why similar: Education 49.1%, Strategy 26.9%, Puzzle 17%, 3D 5.9%, Singleplayer 1.2%

2.5D Falling sand game. Collect Rare Items and discover new Elements. Use Elements to make Powerful Spells. Build and Destroy at your will.

Why similar: Automation 53.8%, Simulation 23.5%, Physics 16.1%, 2D 5.6%, Singleplayer 1%

IEL: Indo European Languages is a 2D educational game where you learn French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and more through fun mini-games. Explore landmarks, improve vocabulary by category, and build real-world communication skills while playing!

Why similar: Education 68.4%, Puzzle 15.7%, Simulation 7.9%, 2D 6.1%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Project Matter is a 2D factory automation game about turning raw inputs into an ever-expanding production web. Place buildings on an infinite grid, draw connections between them, and research new processing chains, waste recovery loops, and advanced materials.

Why similar: Automation 60.3%, Puzzle 14%, Simulation 11.9%, Strategy 9.7%, 2D 3.5%